Baseball in Canada

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Baseball in Canada
A game in progress during the 2017 Canada Games
Country	Canada
Governing body	Baseball Canada
National team(s)	Men's national team Women's national team
First played	Beachville, Ontario, 1838
Club competitions
Major League Baseball Minor League Baseball American Association of Independent Professional Baseball Frontier League
International competitions
Summer Olympics WBSC Premier12 Women's Baseball World Cup World Baseball Classic U-23 Baseball World Cup U-18 Baseball World Cup U-15 Baseball World Cup U-12 Baseball World Cup

Baseball in Canada is played at various levels throughout the country, including by Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays, founded in 1977 (Canada's first MLB team, the Montreal Expos, formed in 1969, relocated to Washington, D.C. in 2005) and Minor League Baseball's Vancouver Canadians, an affiliate of the Blue Jays competing in the High-A Northwest League. There are also several teams that compete in independent baseball leagues, such as the Trois-Rivières Aigles of the Frontier League and the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the American Association.^[1]

Notable amateur leagues include the Intercounty Baseball League (Ontario), Ligue de Baseball Majeur du Québec (Quebec), and the collegiate Western Canadian Baseball League (Alberta and Saskatchewan). There are additionally amateur-level baseball teams playing in each province in the summer months under the auspices of Baseball Canada. Several American-based collegiate leagues have teams in Canada.